Cali Machen

Cali has been a certified birth and postpartum doula since 2018 and has been working in the Philadelphia area as a full time birth doula since 2020. She is also trained as a midwife assistant, trained in the Fertility Awareness Method of ovulation tracking, and has a 200 hour yoga teacher certification.

Teaching about the process of birth and about the body is her favorite part of working in the birth field. She loves educating people all about what their bodies and babies are doing and about all the tools that are sometimes needed during the process. Above all, she loves to teach people about body literacy, educated consent, and that they have options!

Cali loves being a part of the team at lifecycle and helping assist families who want to learn all about birth center care and hospital birth in the care of midwives. She aspires to be a midwife herself someday!

Before she was a birth doula, she worked as a preschool teacher and nanny. When she is not at a birth she is often reading fantasy novels, hanging out with her cats, knitting, or cooking.